Nebraska Police Chase Down Man Video Recording Their Abuse While Second Man Video Records It All

[The Straight Story]

Nebraska Police Chase Down Man Video Recording Their Abuse While Second Man Video Records It All

Omaha police displayed an unbridled street gang brazenness when they chased a man who was video recording them abusing his brother into a private home, confiscating his phone and arresting him to ensure their actions would never see the light of day.

However, another citizen captured the entire incident on video from a second-floor window, ensuring at least the façade of an internal investigation.

Police also arrested a third brother inside the home they entered without a warrant, not to mention they knocked over a woman in a wheelchair.

Police claim the woman in the wheelchair was knocked over by Juaquez as he ran from officers.

Regardless of who knocked her over, police had no right to chase Juaquez into the home without a warrant when all he was doing was video recording them from across the street.

http://www.photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/03/24/nebraska-police-chase-down-man-video-recording-their-abuse-while-second-man-video-records-it-all/

(video at above link)

[Bandit]

1. Police have what they call a "No-Knock Policy"

When they are in pursuit they can enter your home without warrant...It came about for the Drug War but it applies to anything at anytime...

[Cal Carpenter]

5. When I hear "No Knock" I automatically get this song

stuck in my head

You explained it to me I must admit
But just for the record you were talkin' shit
Y'all rap about no knock bein' legislated
For the people you've always hated
In this hell hole you, we, call home

No knock, the man will say
To keep that man from beating his wife
No knock, the man will say
To protect people from themselves

No knockin', head-rockin', inter-shockin'
Shootin', cussin', killin', cryin', lyin'
And bein' white
No knock

No knocked on my brother Fred Hampton
Bullet holes all over the place
No knocked on my brother Michael Harris
And jammed a shotgun against his skull

For my protection?
Who's gonna protect me from you?
The likes of you?
The nerve of you?
Your tomato face deadpan
Your dead hands ending another freedom fan

No knockin', head rockin', inter-shockin'
Shootin', cussin', killin', cryin', lyin'
And bein' white

But if you're wise, no knocker
You'll tell your no-knockin' lackeys
Ha!
No knock on my brother's head
No knock on my sister's head
No knock on my brother's head
No knock on my sister's head

And double lock your door
Because soon someone may be no-knockin'
Ha, ha!
For you

[ProgressiveProfessor]

17. Its called exigent circumstances

Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes its a blatant fraud

[msongs]

2. that goes along with the "we can behave like criminals at anytime" policy nt

[The Wizard]

3. Welcome to

police state America. There's another word that comes to mind, oh yeah, Gestapo.

[LanternWaste]

8. I imagine it takes a lot of courage to write that on a public message board

I imagine it takes a lot of courage to write that on a public message board, even more so when we realize what the consequences of that criticism of that cute little "police state od America" will entail... absolutely nothing.

On the other hand, maybe you will indeed feel the force of an actual police state and be taken to prison in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again.

Good luck!

[xtraxritical]

10. Been there done that.

[backscatter712]

16. Please... Nobody wants to hear your right-wing authoritarian apologist garbage.

For a lot of people, yes, it is that bad.

If you're black in New York City, guess what, you're in Stop & Frisk land. Just for existing and having dark skin, you get slammed against a wall or a patrol car, forcibly searched, maybe arrested if they can invent an excuse, and if you so much as raise your voice slightly, they beat the shit out of you, "defend themselves" by shooting you in the back six times, and if you survive, you're charged with resisting arrest, felony assault of a police officer, and they disappear you for at least a year.

Oh, and they have midnight raids - it's called the War On Drugs. If the police have you on their shit list, they have an "anonymous informant" claim you're growing a plant in your house, and the SWAT team kicks down your door, points guns in your face, drags you to jail, and auctions your house, because under the unconstitutional abomination known as Civil Asset Forfeiture, they're filing charges against your house, and you have to prove your house is not guilty of harboring illegal plants to keep the police from stealing your house, selling it, and using it to buy more heavy weapons for their SWAT team.

They're still doing that right here in Colorado, even after we had a DEMOCRATIC ELECTION, where the people themselves voted to legalize that demonized plant.

That's Gestapo-level shit there, buddy.

[MoclipsHumptulips]

20. Thank you backscatter712

I was not sure about that post, now I get it.

Well said.

[Fastcars]

23. You forgot....

Killing your beloved, or not so beloved, family pets in front of your spouse and children.

[MindPilot]

28. Your continued opposition to the authoritarians is appreciated.

There are those who will deny reality right up until the moment it is THEIR door getting kicked in at 5 am.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

36. Charged with Resisting To Be Dead when they shoot you.

[Blue Palasky]

19. ohhhhh

take a look around, Chet

[The Wizard]

25. If you really believe

the government is worried about musings on Democraticunderground that aren't threatening then you're in a different Universe than I am. Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.

[L0oniX]

33. Greetings Agent Mike.

[EOTE]

40. So, it's not a police state until we're actually locked up for political dissent?

I guess that makes it fairly impossible to speak up against such a police state. We won't know it until we're in jail.

[Egalitarian Thug]

24. Oh no, Don't you know? The crouching hand lickers have declared that everything

is just fine. These are rare anomalies and don't matter anyway because it's not like these are real people and they can always go to court where justice will prevail forever and ever, amen.

Nothing to see here, move along.

[Logical]

4. Google Radley Balko and read him weekly! n-t

[barbiegeek]

6. K&R

[Dryvinwhileblind]

7. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the REAL taxpayer supported union thugs abusing the system...

...the citizenry, ego trippers, taking oaths to protect and to serve....a few years with Bubba and the gang, with ANY luck at all.

[sylvi]

9. It's way past time to start handing out jail sentences

to cops harassing and arresting people videotaping their actions. As much as it's been in the public eye these last few years they cannot plead ignorance on knowing what the civil rights are regarding video recording in public, if they ever could.

Obviously reprimands, suspensions, firings (shamefully few as there are) and lawsuits aren't doing the trick. The only thing the abusers will understand is cooling their heels in a cell alongside the other people they put there. I generally support law enforcement - when they're right - but this shit needs to be stamped out, along with this whole police state culture that seems to have grown like a cancer since 9/11.

[d_r]

11. that was like a damn video game

every few seconds a new pair of cops would come in from the left side of the screen

[formercia]

12. Obviously, Omaha has too many Police on Duty

Just start canning Cops until they get it right.

There's your Welfare for grown-up school bullies that can't hold a regular job.

[99Forever]

13. Are you angry yet?

Disgusted?

Had your fill of this fascist shit?

I know I am all of the above and it's just the tip of the iceberg of the shit that's wrong in this country.

So what are we going to do about it?

[Blue Palasky]

21. defend ourselves

from these pig-headed paramilitary assholes, with firepower? eventually

[99Forever]

29. A laudible goal.

How are you going to do it? I just don't see private citizens have the kind of "firepower" to begin to do battle with these militarily armed thugs with badges. They would wipe us out without breaking a sweat. This isn't some movie where "the good rebels" stand a realistic chance against the War Machine.

I personally think our only hope is MASSIVE peaceful civil disobedience. As in, bring this entire nation to a halt for as long as it takes to break the death grip that the fascists have on our throat. (And I don't honestly believe that will happen.)

[Nanjing to Seoul]

14. okay, badge sniffers, defend this!

Cops can do no wrong. . .it's only a few. . .blah blah blah!!!

[ReRe]

15. Well, what they are going to force people to do is go all clandestine on 'em....

K&R

.... like teeny-tiny cams that you can put in your caps, on a lapel, in your chest pocket, propped on your ear like a pencil, in your car on the rear view mirror (like a police dash cam), you know...James Bond stuff. Looks like videoing them doing their dirty deeds with a conventional video camera is out. Maybe even with your cell phone, unless you are hidden where they can't see you. Radio Shack sells some dandy small digital voice recorders you can carry in a pocket. They look something like a foreign ipod.
Just thinking out loud...

[steelhead77]

18. It seems that...

The same people that defend this police brutality shit are the same ones that scream about the "gov'mint" coming to take their guns.

Their rationale seems to be that they need to protect themselves from the government, while at the same time defending the same government when they bash in someone else's door that they happen to disagree with.

F'ing hypocrites.

[backscatter712]

22. "Freedom for me, but not for thee!"

Hypocrites indeed!

They'll shriek like banshees whenever anyone suggests even the most modest gun safety regulations, like closing the gun show loophole to require universal background checks, or putting a cap on magazine sizes. Make that suggestion, and they'll be out with their Gadsden flags and blue war paint screaming about their FREEEEEEEDOMMMM!!!

But the same assholes will be at Planned Parenthood, calling the women walking in for a mammogram "MURDERERS", then they'll be howling about how allowing gay people to get married to each other will destroy their own marriages, and they'll be running one of those "Good News Clubs" at your local public elementary school, shaming, scaring and indoctrinating YOUR kids (not their kids, YOUR kids) into their batshit authoritarian religion.

They're the same ones laughing at stop-and-frisk videos where some poor black kid is getting his bones broken for giving the NYPD a little lip, and talking about shooting them Mexican "illegals" in Arizona like they were talking about shooting skeet.

[Ed Suspicious]

26. We need more cameras on cops. As long as they are violating people, their abuse needs to be exposed

in any way possible. It's the only way we have a hope of keeping cops clean.

[kudzu22]

27. It's illegal to record police in Illinois

or any government official for that matter. We don't need no do-gooders making trouble for the kind and caring police force.

[premium]

32. Not any more.

http://www.jdjournal.com/2012/11/26/supreme-court-blocks-illinois-law-meant-to-prevent-people-from-recording-police/

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the implementation of an Illinois law that was meant to prohibit people from recording the activities of police officers by refusing to accept an appeal against a lower court order banning the law. The Justices left in place a lower court ruling that found that using the state’s eavesdropping laws against people who recorded the activities of law enforcement officers was unconstitutional.

Unless something has changed, and I haven't seen anything, then it is now legal to record the actions of police in public.

[kudzu22]

35. I hadn't heard that -- thanks

Now, where's my camera?

[premium]

37. It was the Shitcago Police and the IL. Attorney General that really wanted the SCOTUS

to reverse the 7th Circuit's ban against the law, SCOTUS slapped the shit out of them by refusing to take the case.

[truebrit71]

41. Correct....one small victory for John Q. Public

...

[TheKentuckian]

30. The police must be broken and defunded.

[xtraxritical]

34. And so should their major labor suppliers, the military.

[Ikonoklast]

31. And when he thought he was in the clear with no one recording, the cop with his knee in the back

of the one brother handcuffed on the ground started punching him in the head at 2:58.

Yay Cops, they're the best!

[hootinholler]

38. Link seems broken today. n/t

[The Straight Story]

39. Looks like their whole site is down today, thanks for the info (nt)

[ChisolmTrailDem]

42. I wanted to see the video so I went to Google to search

the story headline. The first link to pop up was from Prison Planet. That's nutsoid Alex Jones dump, which apparently has a very large equally nutsoid following. Also, the link to the website you linked to seems to have gone viral.

It's likely the website owner has taken action to throttle down bandwidth.